Driftwood Community Church

In a time when hostility is fast becoming a virtue, and people who are different from us are being labeled the enemy, we look at Paul’s reminder of who the real enemy is. If we can’t agree with Paul on who the enemy is, we’ll end up using the very weapons of the powers we claim to fight. Ephesians 6:10-12

In a time when hostility is fast becoming a virtue, and people who are different from us are being labeled the enemy, we look at Paul’s reminder of who the real enemy is. If we can’t agree with Paul on who the enemy is, we’ll end up using the very weapons of the powers we claim to fight. Ephesians 6:10-12

Today we are going to do some heavy lifting on a text. When Paul lays out the household codes, what if he wasn’t setting up systems of hierarchy but instead speaking into a social structure that already existed to liberate those without power? Ephesians 5:21-6:9

What actually makes an action Christian or sinful, the deed itself, or the heart behind it? Today, we attempt to move beyond what we so easily get fixated on in these texts in order to get to the heart of Paul’s message on living the pattern of love, wisdom, and being filled with the Spirit - alternative to a life driven by excess. Ephesians 5:1-20 ‍

What actually makes a moral action Christian? Is it the deed itself? Scripture seems to indicate that when a moral code or law isn't practiced from the right motivation, we can end up using the very commands of God to promote self-righteousness, or worse, to judge others. In today's passage, Paul seems to indicate that the motive behind a good action matters as much as, or more than, the action it...

In our church world, where it is easy to equate surface action to obedience, Paul invites us to slow down and reconsider what might make something Christian. For Paul, the action itself is not necessarily Christian, but rather the action done in a specific posture resulting in the development of love, is what makes it Christian. Ephesians 4:1-16‍ ‍

In a culture that tends to believe success is the result of the self-made man or woman, we assume our will is uninfluenced, unpolluted, unbiased, and therefore solely responsible for the discipline we credit ourselves with. That belief leaves little room for grace and plenty of room for contempt and judgment. Today we explore how Paul digs beneath the will to get to what actually matters, the affe...

Often we seek safety and comfort in sameness and homogeneity. It’s easy to see difference and diversity as something to solve or fear. Scripture has a different perspective. Paul thought the expression of God through the embrace of difference and diversity was worth imprisonment, and believed that these little communities of difference united under Jesus were proof to the world that Jesus had won....

Often we bring preconceived ideas and doctrines into these dense, wordy texts. What if we began to simply ask, “What are these texts inviting us to see?” What if there is more to this whole thing than some eternal destination? What if Salvation is about the here and now? This week we invite you to explore Ephesians 2 with us and all it might be calling us to. Scripture reading: Ephesians 2

Maybe the structure of Ephesians is more prescriptive than the actual commands or teaching. In today’s talk we take a look at Paul’s prayer for his churches and how those prayers may shape the way we live as the resurrected body of Christ. Today's Scripture readings: Ephesians 1:15-23

Maybe the structure of Ephesians is more prescriptive than the actual commands or teaching. In a world where our identity is often tossed about on the waves of ever-changing circumstances, technology, culture wars, and opinions, Paul reminds us that who we are is based solely on God's love for us through the work of Jesus. Today's Scripture readings: Ephesians 1:3-14

Today, we wanted to step away from our normal flow and series to speak into our church. Many individuals in our little church have experienced loss and hurt over the last month. So today we took the opportunity to speak to the heart of that loss and hurt. Today's Scripture readings: Ecclesiastes 7:1-5; Psalm 103:1-14; John 1:1-5, 10-14,16-18; Proverbs 8:22-31

Today, we take some time to acknowledge America's 250th birthday. We currently face deep division within our nation, and much of that division runs right through the church. Our commitment to the extremes on either side is hindering our witness to the resurrected Jesus. The way of Christ calls us away from those extremes and shapes how we live as citizens in the countries we call home. The way of...

Today, we begin to understand the basic understanding of the foundation and identity of the church.

Growing up, the fruit of the Spirit versus the fruit of the flesh felt like a moral checklist, a list of behaviors that existed for their own sake. But there's a deeper purpose behind them, one that shapes us into a colony of heaven here on earth, the church.

Whether it's the first couple in Genesis or the picture of the church in Acts, the authors of scripture have a habit of creating literary icons, models for what something is meant to be. We see it in individuals, in marriages, in nations. This week, we explore Luke's literary icon of the church in Acts 2, a Spirit-empowered people.

Pentecost is the day we celebrate two events at once: the arrival of the Holy Spirit and the birth of the church. Too often, the gift of the Spirit gets reduced to a doctrinal checkbox or sensationalized into a feeling or a language, missing the point entirely. Join us this week to discover why the Spirit was given to the church in the first place.

The Ascension of Jesus is often framed as "he went to heaven so I can too." That story is far smaller than what actually happened. Ascension is the story that releases us to be the body of Christ in the world, under the rule of a far more powerful king. Join us this week as we dig into what the Ascension is actually about.

Jesus did not come to simply improve our afterlife. He came to give us a life that is full, rich, and real right now. This week, we take an honest look at what that abundant life actually looks like in the everyday.

Every decision we make is driven by some kind of logic, whether it is what we want, what we fear, or what we have come to believe is true. This week we ask a simple but disruptive question: what happens to the way we think and live when we believe that love is the most powerful and lasting reality in the universe?

The resurrection was never meant to be just an event we observe once a year. This week we explore what it looks like to actually live it.

Today we move to our second scene on the way to the Cross. We turn to John’s telling of the garden arrest, where we encounter four different ways of responding to the way of the Cross.

On this first Sunday of Lent, we slow down and listen to the prayer of a dying man — Jesus’ final, heartfelt request to the Father. As we hear what matters most to him in that moment, we have to ask ourselves: Is the thing Jesus emphasizes so deeply the same thing we, as his Church, have chosen to emphasize?

As we close out the season of Epiphany, we make our way up the mountain of Transfiguration. There, two things happen. First, we see Jesus revealed as the One in whom past and present meet — the fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets gathered into a single, living person. Second, in Peter’s response, we are given a mirror. His instinct to preserve, control, and hold on exposes something in us...

Today we explore one of the central figures of the Epiphany season, John the Baptist, and ask ourselves, how we, like John may become the epiphany of Jesus in our world.